About the Authors

Marisela M. Davis

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – original draft

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Fralin Life Sciences Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Aaron M. Brock

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Fralin Life Sciences Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Tanner G. DeHart

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Fralin Life Sciences Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Brittany P. Boribong

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Katherine Lee

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliation Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Mecaila E. McClune

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Fralin Life Sciences Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Yunjie Chang

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Visualization

Affiliations Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Microbial Sciences Institute, Yale University, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Nicholas Cramer

Roles Data curation, Formal analysis, Methodology, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia, United States of America

Affiliation Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Jun Liu

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Project administration, Resources, Visualization

Affiliations Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America, Microbial Sciences Institute, Yale University, West Haven, Connecticut, United States of America

Caroline N. Jones

Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Writing – review & editing

Current address: Department of Bioengineering, University of Texas, Dallas, Texas, United States of America

Affiliations Molecular and Cellular Biology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Genetics, Bioinformatics, and Computational Biology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Brandon L. Jutras

Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing – original draft

bjutras@vt.edu

Affiliations Department of Biochemistry, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Fralin Life Sciences Institute, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Molecular and Cellular Biology, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Center for Emerging, Zoonotic and Arthropod-borne Pathogens, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America, Translational Biology, Medicine, and Health, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, Virginia, United States of America

Competing Interests

All authors declare no competing interests.